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Downtown TO after a Grey Cup win by the Argos:

Yes, because what would the CFL do with all their bailout money every five or so years.

Oh no, a fan from a rival team has blocked me! Funny, but I seem to remember Bluto giving all sorts of excuses as to why people wouldn't support the Argos when they were at the Dome, but just wait until they move to a "real football stadium", then you'd see their true colors. Seems like a new batch of excuses might be needed. I'm actually glad that he won't read this because it might just burst his bubble, because if he's going by Nielsen rating to determine the number of Argo "fans" then he's got a problem. If people might occasionally watch a game from home and nothing else, then the best that can be said is that they are fans that know which team they're ignoring. The Toronto Argonauts - their logo should be a black hole sucking in dollar signs. Go Stamps!

Ticket sales would disagree with your estimate. Or maybe in the east, one is considered a fan if they can identify the team logo two times out of three. Considering the number of times that the rest of the CFL (especially here in the west) have bailed out your team, I think the word that you're looking for not "dickish", it's "understandable". Not to worry Bluto, some of us may make fun, but we'll be here for you the next time your team needs rescuing.

That's cute. 905'ers. I know that some people are likely thinking "area code" but I think it's neat how you know the exact number of Argo fans in Toronto!

I think there was a promotion going on. I believe it was: "Come to a free Argo's game and we'll drive you there, give you a jersey to wear, buy you a meal afterwards and give you tickets to something you'd really want to go to " night. I also understand that the time spent at an Argo's game can be used for "community service" in the Ontario fine option program.

So wait, does that mean that Rider fans outnumbered Argos fans?

Wow, I was so surprised that Kevin Glenn struggled and threw pick six's during a crucial game. Who knew? Oh yea, just about anyone. For those of you hoping that Kevin would finally get a ring, be assured tat he can get one any time he wants: off of eBay.

Not to pile on, but if you're wearing the uniform on game day, you need to be ready to go. It's not the player's call to decide if he "feels he can do it" or if he's "comfortable". You're getting paid, you bloody well better be ready to play if called upon.

Well, Walters is clearly wrong. Pigseye has it on good authority,

Being that Halifax is on the ocean, and boats are a big part of their heritage and voyages started or ended there, how about the Argonauts. It's not like 99.99999% of Torontonians would notice or care.

Walters might disagree with you on that.

If we do, I hope that we insist he drive there. Having to go through Saskatchewan should nip that in the bud, toot sweet.

Further to the discussion about scheme vs players, it would appear that our GM is suggesting that maybe scheme might have played a bigger part that players (of course a GM would think that) from Ed Tait's Twitter feed:

Here's the thing. Hall used Hurl in Regina too, as I recall. Then, once Hall escaped the pit, he managed to drag Hurl out of it as well. Now, while helping anyone escape Saskatchewan is a good thing, Hall didn't have to also provide employment too but yet, here Hurl is. If Hall really didn't want Hurl and truly believed that Hurl was hurting the defense, he sure has a funny way of showing that. I find it difficult to believe that someone would put them self in a position to fail on purpose.

I too have loved the very effective "Booch slapdown" handed to some of our self proclaimed experts. Very enjoyable to watch. At the same time Booch, thanks so much for sharing these "in-depth" type views. They are fascinating.

As yes, the Taman approach. That explains his incredible success and why he's still such a factor in this league.

Step 2 would be winning it. I'm reasonably happy with the fact that we are now have a team that can be expected to be in the playoffs. For a lot of teams, that was never really an issue, but it was for us. We seem to be over that hurdle. With a proper DC scheme, a legitimate MAC and one more quality receiver, I really think we're there.

Shouldn't we check with TBurg before saying that?

Actually, history does bear that out. If you check over the past 27 years, 100% of the time, the team that won the Grey Cup had qualified for the playoffs. Just because we haven't won it doesn't make it less true. However, getting to the playoffs, especially in a 9 team league in which 6 will qualify, should simply be step one . We're getting step one done now. Next is step two...

I was hoping you'd let it out and say something like: "I think that with Paul LaPolice as our Offensive Coordinator, we are Grey Cup contenders and I'm thankful we have him, even though I pretend I really don't like him, due to feelings that we really don't have to get into."

So that includes LaPolice? Come on, say it. You know you want to.

You're right. I don't think he ever said he was happy with the defense. I did like the questions that were being asked, but I wish that when he talked about 100 takeaways in 2 years, someone would have pointed out that while we did have a good number of them this year, there was a sharp decline (17 I think) between 2016 and 2017. So even the thing that he's most happy about saw a pretty significant drop this year. Would have been nice to hear how he'd respond to that. When you look at the way O'Shea usually goes out of his way to not speak ill of any situation or person, the fact that he said that there were some problems that need to get fixed tells me that he's laying the ground work for a change. If he really didn't think that, we would have gotten a shrug and a "we'll look at the tape, but I'm not overly worried" response.

Jeez Louise, he's already replaced OC's that weren't performing, but ya, he's stubborn about that stuff.

To be clear, there's an error in the title of the CBC report. There is no indication that Hall is coming back, just that he's currently under contract for 2018.